CLAREMONT — Marcela Pinos, a Bronx high school student, will stand on the National Mall next week and watch President Obama take the oath of office thanks to online donors who paid for her entire trip — including a New Jersey man who gave $1,765.

“It appeared she was going to fall short, so I decided to help her,” said Danny O’Shea, a Bronx-to-New Jersey transplant who found Pinos’ story online. “This girl seems to be busting her tail — all she needs is a little push.”

Pinos, 16, secured an invitation to the selective five-day High School Presidential Inaugural Conference — where students study government and leadership, listen to speakers such as former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and watch the inauguration — through her membership in the National Society of High School Scholars.

But because she and her mother, an Ecuadorian immigrant who works at a supermarket, couldn’t afford the event’s $3,195 price tag, the teen launched her own fundraising campaign by writing letters to celebrities, selling cupcakes and joining a crowd-funding site.

Joel Rivera, a Bronx city councilman, read Pinos’ story and recalled traveling to the nation’s capital when he was a teenager to witness Bill Clinton’s inauguration.

“I remembered how amazing it felt to be in Washington at that time — it changed my mindset,” said Rivera, who contributed personal, not city, funds to Pinos’ trip. “Once I saw Marcela had this ambition, I wanted to make sure that money would not be an issue.”

Pinos’ former teacher, now based in South Africa, also donated, as did a Bronx woman who said she had scrounged $20 for the teen.

“I don't have much; like your mother, I work in a supermarket,” the woman wrote on the fundraising site.

“I hope to read about you one day,” she said at the end of her message. “Good Luck!”

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